Plan de Negocio para la Creación de una Empresa Dedicada a la Fabricación e Implementación de Sistemas de Riego Automatizado en Cultivos

Abstract

Countries around the world are facing accelerated growth in the birth rate, which implies increased production and consumption of food. It is estimated that world production of these foods will have to increase by 60% to meet demand in the next 30 years. Increasing food production, necessarily, implies increasing the amount of water required for this task and worldwide, agriculture is the largest consumer of this resource. In Colombia, according to studies carried out by the United Nations, 70% of the water is used to irrigate crops (8).

According to the 2018 National Water Study, carried out by Minambiente, which distributes the water demand in the economic sectors, shows that agricultural activity consumes 16,067 million cubic meters per year of water, which is equivalent to 43.1% of the total consumption, followed by the Energy sector, which represents 24.3% and livestock with 8.2%, added together is equivalent to 76% of the national water demand. (9)

However, the water resources used for the agricultural sector are not used efficiently. In many cases, the large amounts of water used for the irrigation of the plantations begin to stagnate, which means a serious phytosanitary problem for the crop.

Given the incentives offered by the State for the creation of companies dedicated to the agricultural sector, and in turn, direct support to small and medium producers, the construction of an automated irrigation system for crops is proposed. With these, they seek to solve problems such as the high consumption of water resources for the irrigation of crops and the high cost of accessing and implementing this type of irrigation technology.